Not long after the racist outburst that followed Indian-American Nina Davuluri winning the Miss America beauty crown, some Americans showed their ugly racist face again, demonstrating that the United States, like India, is still a work in progress. The occasion this time was a Coca-Cola ad that debuted un SuperBowl Sunday, showing different immigrant communities in the US singing ''America, the beautiful'' in seven different languages - English, Spanish, Hindi, Keres, Tagalog, Senegalese French and Hebrew.

The blowback was immediate, with a hashtag #speakamerican quickly appearing on Twitter. ''One simply does NOT sing America the Beautiful in ANY language but English. Get on board, or get out'' read one tweet. ''Some terrorists were singing our song in that Coke commercial'' read another. One military veteran wrote that he had not fought for the US to have immigrants singing the song in foreign languages.

Dozens of languages are spoken in the US today, with some 60 million people speaking a language other than English - most commonly Spanish, which is why the SuperBowl was also broadcast in Spanish for the first time. Most of all, the United States has no official language.

Dismayed about the rash of racism and discrimination in India, from singling out Africans to beating up northeasterners? Breathe easy; India is in ''good company.'' Discrimination of various kinds - racial, ethnic, linguistic etc - is very much a worldwide phenomenon, including in ''the greatest country on earth'' that is supposed to have reached the acme of civilization and egalitarian virtues.

(L-R)Student Of The Year cast, Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt and Siddharth Malhotra caught on camera at the launch of Coke Studio Season 3, held at Blue Frog, in Mumbai, on August 1, 2013. (Pic: Viral Bhayani)

Dismayed about the rash of racism and discrimination in India, from singling out Africans to beating up northeasterners? Breathe easy; India is in ''good company.'' Discrimination of various kinds - racial, ethnic, linguistic etc - is very much a worldwide phenomenon, including in ''the greatest country on earth'' that is supposed to have reached the acme of civilization and egalitarian virtues.